The Swarthmore College music building and the St. Bede Abbey worship assembly building have similar cultural concern but have widely different design solutions. (Author/MLF)

In a report condensing the findings of a study, "Training and Entry into Union Construction", it is emphasized that the apprenticeship system constitutes the best form of training now used in the building trades. (Author/AG)

A statistical report on 121 public library building projects completed in the U.S.A. during the year ending June 30, 1974. (Author)

In Washington, academic and building trades skills are conjoined for high school students in the Tacoma Interdisciplinary Program (Editor)

Outlines how classification systems or codes, operating in a variety of contexts, regulate the interaction between man and the built environment. Views the ritual forms of the built environment as transmitters of culture. Suggests that this framework might provide a new starting point for investigations into the built environment in use and the…

Discusses records made of the London Weather Centre indicative of concentrated sunshine symmetrically about noon, which provides a probability of sunshine occurring on vertical surfaces to be greatest for south facing walls. Concludes that design recommendations should be based on available, rather than on theoretically possible, sunshine duration…

Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, has an award-winning science center that defines three main categories of science -- physics, chemistry, and biology. (Author/MLF)

In a study on the design of day care facilities for mentally retarded children, it was found that the needs of the mentally retarded, the culturally deprived, and normal children are the same. (Author)

A Davenport, Iowa, school district has remodeled a department store into a vocational and technical school currently housing 250 students on half-day programs. (Author/MLF)

This paper describes two research projects in the anthropology of landscape architecture design which show that "professional culture" restrictions often prevent anthropologists from putting their theories into practice. The first research project grew out of the author's assumption that landscape architecture students were not producing…

The philosophy of Martin Heidegger has major bearing on work in humanistic geography and related environmental fields. Dwelling, according to Heidegger, is the process through which people make their place of existence a home. For all the seeming rightness of Heidegger's view, there is much about dwelling that confounds and alienates many present…